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Good Hope Farms Neighbors, friends and families, it was cold, and I did not think many would come. You proved me wrong, and I love that. In normal Good Hope Farms fashion, you made this a great event! We donated $1,538 and 663 pounds of food. We are making a difference. This will help nearly 9000 families in need.

Put your bird in the oven & bring your family (visiting grandchildren) and friends to the

8th ANNUAL GOOD HOPE FARMS TURKEY TROT THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Run/Walk /Bike/Scooter/Other

Just Donate Canned Food and Socialize After the Trot

Start/End Location: 476 Woodcrest Drive

Arrival Time: 8:30 a.m. Start Time: 9:00 a.m.

Turkey Trot: This is the outer loop of neighborhood.

Chicken Fun Run: This is a small loop for those toddler turkeys or those who are not “game” for the trot.

Admission: Food for the Central PA Food Bank

No Registration Necessary

Please Bring: canned food or monetary donations for the food bank, refreshment to share and your reusable water bottle to quench your thirst.

All Are Welcome: Bring a friend. Actually, bring many friends!

Order your Turkey Trot Short Sleeve T-Shirts ($7) (no longer available)– All racers and non-racers can order
– Back of shirts sponsors can register on the below site. ($25 Family Sponsors & $75/$125 Company Logo)

Questions about shirts can be sent to *protected email*

We have raised over 7,000 pounds of food and $10,500 for the food bank over the years.

We can continue to make a difference if you continue to participate and each year you get one more person/family to join us.

Not available on Thanksgiving? 🙁 You can still contribute!

Drop off food donations on the porch of 476 Woodcrest.

Racers and Non-Racers please join us for refreshments & social afterward

Feel free to bring a delight or beverage to share.

Not a Racer? Volunteers & Spectators needed

Photographer, Set-up, Finish Line & Clean-up

Create Community

Our neighborhood thrives when every family organizes 1 neighborhood event or assists with at least 2-3 events & participates in many!

Most valuable non-perishable items for the PA Food Bank:

Canned tuna, meats and stews

Canned fruits and vegetables

Soup

Peanut butter

Packaged meals

Packaged pasta and rice

Canned and dried beans

Pure fruit and vegetable juices

Baby food, cereal and formula (must be within code date)

If you cannot make the race, we still would love your food contributions.

Drop off your food donations at 476 Woodcrest Drive.

This benefit is a way to truly be thankful this Thanksgiving and give back to the community!

We had our first cat, and it paid little attention to the fifty-so trotting dogs. This is the Meyer’s cat, and I want to steal it. Many of you know this cat from people’s “lost cat” FB posts. If it is ever really lost, please do not look in my house.

Total Runners- too many to count I did not do a formal registration this year, because it is a lot of work. I think we can do without registration, but NEXT YEAR I will have a tally board, so we know how many participants.

Most Food Donations we have ever collected: Quote from Chris Gray at the food bank: “WOW!!! 1089 pounds, that is a haul!! You get 6 barrels next year!!!! Great neighborhood you have, you all have a great Holiday!!!” I had so many people who were heading out of town, dropping donations. Woo-hoo!! (Rosemary, I will bring my wheel barrow to your car next time.)

Total Monetary Donations: $2,126.85 This is wonderful. More neighbors donated than in the past, so a BIG thank you to all who donated. Food bank counts on our monetary donations for when food donations wane.

(If you did not get a Karns $5 off 35 coupon, please stop by anytime.)

The food bank cannot believe we are “just” a neighborhood coming together. For the record, we are not “just” a neighborhood. We are Good Hope Farms, one amazing neighborhood with incredible friends and families.

Good Hope Farms we can be proud of this! We are coming together for charity.

The event ran smoothly because of so many neighbors stepping up to help.

Wonderful event volunteers:

Advertiser: Amy Erno

T-shirts and Sponsors: Vicki Wilken

Grocery Store & Donut Sponsors: Amy Johns

Food Table: Rachael and Cindy Smith

Food Donations: Diane Navin and her lovely daughter

Event Item Donators: Titus, Guelcher, Ryerson, Meyer, Wilken

Fantastic Photographers: Valerie & Brooke Ryerson and Melanie Berra

Queen of Results: Liz Motter- I couldn’t do it without her.

Donut Pick-up: Karla Schmidt

Rock Wall for Annual Picture and Cat Provider for added fun: Meyers

FB Page: Jason Shugart

Front Sign Informer: Don Wood

Food and Race set-up and Clean-up: Dave, Maddie & Grace Brown-Scherer

This is Cart Strouss (8th from the left, front row), and he was sporting all the trot shirts layered from our first fluorescent to this year’s purple. Love him!!!